California refused to pay $1 billion to the Trump administration

The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom rejected the demand of the administration of US President Donald Trump to pay $ 1 billion to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to settle the dispute with the federal authorities. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on Sunday, August 10.

"Donald Trump has used the Department of Justice as a weapon to bring the public university system in America to its knees by freezing funding for medicine and science until UCLA pays its $1 billion ransom," Newsom's office said in a statement.

The governor stressed that the state would not bow to Trump's "disgusting political extortion." He also added that this is not about protecting students, but about political extortion from the president, who "pays for the game."

On August 8, it was reported that Trump demanded that the University of California pay $1 billion in compensation as a condition for resuming funding for the educational institution. In addition, to resume funding, Trump demanded that the university pay an additional $172 million to satisfy the claims of people who suffered as a result of violations by the university of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, skin color, religion, gender or national origin.

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